This may well refer to John Barrymore, who was a known lush. However, one does not get "pock marks" on one's face from drinking. Smallpox, measles, possibly even chicken pox cause them. Drinking can do a lot of bad things to one's looks, but pock marks isn't one of them.

StewMcgee has it right,,, plus remember, we're speaking grain alcohol/moonshine/liquid lightning during prohibition 1920-1933 technically. but the Feds were poisoning the water,so to speak from 1916 on… that stuff blinded you & DEFINATELY exacerbated most light skinned rosacea into full-blown scarring,W.C.Fields look all over chin,cheeks,nose,hairline,etc.

Had to use women's makeup on an actor in the 1920s, 1930s? That claim sounds ridiculous — if you have ever watched a film made back then, you'd notice men wearing more enough products to make a Juggalo envious.

acne/poor complexion can also be brought on by drinking or any chemical contamination of the body. fast-food won't give you pimples because it's fattening or greasy, but the toxins used in low-grade food will.

Not Fields. Fields went out on his own steam, never slipping to small character roles. It's almost certainly John Barrymore, who died from complications of cirrhosis. It's well known that his ability to carry films began to slip during the thirties, and he finished his career with smaller roles. His aged precipitously in last decade. I think the use of pockmarks to describe his complexion was probably just a sloppy choice of words.

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